Comments on Comments #55. Minibook Pro and other Chat. Q and A.

Hello, welcome to real magic review. Is it working? Can you hear me? I hope so because it's been a bit of a rush My name is Steve Faulkner. No, that's very important. Really. Is it and I keep saying that I suppose it's a thing Do you want to read a little bit red there than I I'm gonna do something about that Before we continue this I'm gonna look at some comments about mini book pro and a little bit about the corporate stage magician and other stuff, thank you very much Tom and I see Tommy as well and Chris and But before we do that, of course why my eyes are kind of really red and burning is because I run online magic co that's my Online as the title suggests membership site 10 years in the making 900 plus videos which is preposterous Loads different courses wrote magic coin magic as you can see a special guest last week. We had lovely John Allen Doing some great rubber band stuff and a lot of stuff about his destination box, etc. This week. We've got no quarter and Roddy McGee hopefully But anyway, no, of course definitely coming and we think Roddy is Which is gonna be great talking about creativity all that for $9.99 and they're all uploaded There's 150 live sessions, David Williamson, Andy Gladwin all sorts of stuff like that So talking about Andy Gladwin Again, I'm bit. I'm genuinely I put a thing on my instagram story at real magic review follow me on there for stories Well, I just talk bobbins really but do some behind the scenes stuff Daily most days and the more you watch the more I'll do and of course, that's at Steve Faulkner for for other stuff, so yeah, so tonight is the Piff the launch official launch vanishing to do in the piff the magic dragon book and we all know, you know, I love my books and It I was like looking at it going. Oh, yeah, it's a Hyping up. They're doing a launch online. Whatever. I don't really watch that sort of thing I'll just get the book and read it and then I saw who's involved in it and it's ridiculous like Penn and Teller David Copperfield loads of other people and Nine o'clock UK time tonight. I've a look what that means in your country, but I reckon you should have a look So I've look at the vanishing site You have to kind of put your email in to get your invite and but I don't as limited numbers or anything And I genuinely nobody said can you do there's anything me to do it? I'm not good, you know, but I think it's quite a cool thing. You should know about And I've been looking I've been reading The pages are blank. It looks like I'm being a bellishing. Yes, man again Because I'm reviewing it. They sent me is to review I've been really really enjoying it really loving it. So there you go as a recommendation until I review it and the reason I'm Tired is because I've been editing for two days because I finally finished the first section of the rubber band course. I've been Living in rubber band magic for a few weeks now and Dan Harlan. Thank you Give me permission to teach a lot of his stuff Joe Reinfleisch Give me permission to tell you so Chris Kenna has given me permission to teach his Incredible link about me showing one of the best things ever. I've been loving doing that. So that's coming on the course tomorrow I'll be uploading that so I've never been going on about my course a lot, but I'm excited because it's taken me years You know, I'm really happy with the way it looks So yeah, yes good Tom. It's good stuff on it. And I've There's no more coming, but I'm gonna put a big chunk on tomorrow right So thanks for coming any questions. You've got Chad greetings from West Virginia nice to have you here Chad and and of course everybody else So I've reviewed no quarters and Roddy McGee's mini book Pro, which I Totally a job gosh, my phone's making noises to tell me more money's gone out of my account. That's Andy I Love any trick that you know, like Dan house is lit which they do credit Way something changes into a thing and you know, what's the review? I think it's brilliant. I have been caning it and I'm gonna It just feels different than a lot of tricks. So I'm going to do the Comments now you can ask me this is obviously from Nolan Roddy's trick trick boom Company no was doing a lot of stuff with penguin magic and he's kind of gone now independent with with no and so, you know The links that I put in the review do use them go to trick trick boom calm or the color UK. Anyway, one of them work right, so here is the The comments which I've just put on airplane mode, so I can't get open them up. Hang on There's nothing more professional than man looking at his phone. Is there? That's what I think so Tom Comment here. That is great This is a mini book Pro a tech trick with hardly any tech trying to stop spending on Magic and learn the stuff already have but my buy now finger is twitching Yeah, and I you know, I've said a lot that I'm trying not to get more magic or get stuff to review But I do buy as well And I don't need anything even without the stuff to review I'm going back to a lot of stuff and Going back to the coin and card work that I love going back to Marlowe and you know reading Steve Reynolds's stuff on Marla with prime tomorrow book, which I will be reviewing soon I'll be seeing Steve soon as well as coming over to the UK. That's very exciting But you know so much. I've already got so going back You know, I I looked just before we started I looked at these books look still in its cellophane. I remember getting these books No, man's land, you know and just go that's really exciting and then completely forgetting Adam absolutely disgraceful, so I know what you mean, but this and I'm not saying I'm not saying by it by it, you know But I'm just saying for me and I didn't buy it. I've got a review copy, you know, so I've just been really enjoying it. It's a very special thing So I know what you mean, and if I hadn't got a review copy There's one of the few things I said, I think I would have bought on which Subject where's from the comments gone, right? Most of no stuff requires experience based boldness and really stuff is always brilliant a great marriage Thanks Steve from Chris who's here as well. Hope you all Chris Yeah, I'm talking about boldness and it's why I like this is what this whole point of this kind of live stream is about Which I forgot to put on social media at all. So well done for being here. Thanks For being it and for watching afterwards, you know it's about like talking about the things around the trips and the boldness things it's is interesting, isn't it because That's what makes magic Magic really, you know, it's it's just things that we do where people See that boldness and that misdirection. They don't see it. Obviously, that's the point of it, but they Know he writes about this a lot in the pages of blank by the way that thing is they know it's tricks They know anything and so the fact that something That should have been so clear happens even though they know it must happen at some point it almost makes it better and it's that it's that boldness of Kind of not that bravery of keeping your call and doing something going I'm gonna get caught with this a bit like a watch deal and watch deals way way bolder and more difficult than this Oh, shut up. I keep thinking I put on side. I don't know how to use my phone. I want a new one It's only an iPhone 11. It's terrible. Anyway, not blaming it So it's yeah, it's not like a watch deal or anything like that It's way way easier, but when you learn what you can get away with I always talk about this They're putting a melon under hat, etc Then the fact that when they're doing something or that they're doing a job an audience member You can get away with loads of stuff. And again, he talks about in the book. Now the pages are blank, you know There's so many opportunities and so much reason why you would turn around a trick turn around when you look at the card turn around Why you show everybody so you've got it's not even really misdirected Doing stuff when people aren't looking which I suppose misdirection kind of is but but it's more to it than that So yeah that but and and no stuff a lot of it does require that But I think a lot of magic doesn't I would say even the simplest magic does really even if we think it's self-work And it does require a kind of boldness of of our belief that it's gonna work without doubt because as soon as we doubt it The audience pick up on it, which is why I was getting caught so much and still do a bit with watch deals Right. This is an interesting one From that M Cool idea and I see why reactions are strong as usual Magis are the best at repurposing hundred-year-olds effects for modern times Yeah, and I don't think there's any wrong with that at all I think you know, all of magic is all built on on ancient, you know ancient ideas and we all know that right? There's nothing really new. There's new ways of doing things. But you know, we're taking card tricks as millions of them and And doing them differently and making them feel like completely different tricks, even though they use, you know age-old principles I don't have some thing right. This is interesting. So by the way, I'll never stop using this in my set in them Said every magician on most reviews ever If magicians actually did what they said Their set would be made of 92 effects including Allerton's aspirin tin fast-forward to one year later and let's see their set I find it weird how these types of sentences become the background noise of magic reviews Right, so I kind of agree with that a little bit But I try not I know you're not just talking about there But I tried really hard to not say I'm putting this and I would never say that if I didn't genuinely believe That I was going to start doing something now Because I genuinely believe I'm gonna start performing something when I perform it a bit out there. I go. This is brilliant Doesn't assume I'm gonna be doing it a year later I know that because what happens is we take all the new stuff out we do it and realize we can't carry it It's happening. So so the things that filter down the things that are kept I've said many times are No, there's not much of all the things I've reviewed. There's not much that stays in there There's a solid thing that I do all the time. Level one is one of them. I Believe at this moment that this trick MiniBook Pro is something that will stay because it feels different than anything. I do even though it's a card trick The reactions are so strong and really funny Which is what I'm going for that ridiculous thing of going the little thing comes out the thing There's so many moments in this it does feel like anything else. I do now. Is there a chance? I won't be doing it in a year. Of course there is But for now, I really believe that and I don't think I've said that, you know, I've said quite a lot about this I love doing it, but I probably won't do it when I'm working And that's alright too and I think it doesn't matter if it's not in my professional set, you know I've said this many times if it's on the show for instance, it doesn't mean I'll never do it It just means I don't want to you know, set it up for every show that I do So for those times when I do want to do, you know certain tricks I Will do them even though they might not be part of my professional set They're still part of what I want to do and by learning them I've also learned something else which is one of the reasons what always say I started this Channel is to make me keep learning. But yeah, it's a valid point So agree. I thought the same being cute. This is from Sorry, everybody. It's getting worse. Oh, that's brilliant. It's not really clear now funny, isn't it? The same being cute a novelty idea with a great giveaway the good point I've got a thing on that in a minute as well a nice review Just wish you would have really taught more about the card fold needed Yeah I think it's okay to say that because it's kind of be a wheel now And how easy it is to do from scale of 1 to 10 with a gimmick We are magicians watching those that and that not having no that that haven't you know Some people don't have an idea love the fact, you know, you test drove it live prior to review, right? Yeah, good point I did sort of mention everything else and not that so it's the fold in it and we all know and nobody, you know That's fine, isn't it? It's scored basically to make it easier So you've got things like John Allen's perfect score, which I've reviewed and talked about on here anyway So no, I'm keeping quiet about it does make a mercury card fold Ridiculously easy you just kind of put the pressure on it and the whole thing kind of collapses into that thing Way easier than doing it with a non scored card Now I don't use perfect scoring and all tricks where I do a mark we make recard file because a lot of times I don't need a perfect folded card. I'm pretty good at it if it's slightly off it doesn't matter in this trick it does because you want it to fold into the thing and You you want it now you can score it on your own or you can buy perfect score You can buy a trick trick boom and of course John Allen's website And I would recommend it for things like Paragon 3d and things like that Where you want that card folded and you just put into place force it or whatever and and it does the job So if you've got a kind of ropey You've got to have a really good one with this and I really recommend your land and when he came out with Perfect score as I would have to fold it, you know score that for and then when you use it you go All right, it's dad. Yes was zero effort If you want that perfect square I'm still here. Oh, so I've got booted off last week. Do not internet went down because I think I was Sinking the drop box to about 15 1500 gigabytes of stuff So let me know if I'm still here So, thank you for that another extra review, thank you for your efforts, that's be trigged for some sem free. Thank you, Robert ball Love you. Rob a ball magician. Very nice spectrum of you. Thank you I always love Raleigh thinking but this is a good point. But as I strongly dislike Apple products this one isn't for me Thanks Tom and This and I think it's know that wrote this from trick trick boom really good point I've told this to a friend who hates Apple to it was great Your presentation can be about how you thought you'd give them a chance some friend bought this for you and you were furious It's tiny. I think that's a brilliant and I read that and I went I might do that Anyway, you know, I'm getting a bit tight and this is true I'm getting tired of Apple because everything's too expensive and you know, they cut out the CD the DVD drive Which is fine and the USB which is slightly annoying and now they're making computers that big. Oh, it's great. Very funny Sam press you even replied to this from Sam. I strongly dislike lemon. So I will never do build trip switch ever. Yeah, so What's not to like pinball wizard I agree and what about the MFC now this is yeah, it's just right so That's that Give me some questions. If you've got any here doesn't like you up. So that's totally fine Corporate stage act it isn't interesting That and I You know banged on about this quite a lot Is that the the amount and I'm not I'm not angry about this and just genuinely things interesting That things like the corporates that I know so many people have said to me I Want to work on my act my corporate act I want to get more gigs or get and when there's a course that is Made to get you more gigs and pretty much promises to get more gigs and will live up to I think if you put the stage didn't to play Get to very few views compared to a trick and actually those people that say that are often spending loads of money on tricks and they'll say well not spending Hundred quid on the course. I'm not criticizing them because I do exactly the same it feels like less exciting to to invest in a course and To to sharpen the saw and if you don't that is I've seen a minute Then it does to buy a trick But actually that's the that's a really the really important stuff and I think working on ourselves and working on that sort of thing I find incredibly difficult because it doesn't feel like work. It feels like work when I'm doing stuff and I'm Editing and things like that and I put on the Instagram today is a really interesting thing that there's a certain shot I've been wanting to set up Very simple, but I've just tried to work it out where it's a complete background black background But my hands lit when I'm doing stuff. I love that effect for years I've tried different backdrops and different things couldn't get it, right? I finally went back and Work and learned how to do actually, you know I signed up to a thing called creative live which got loads of courses on editing and stuff like that I went back and I learned how to do it and I'm 10 20 minutes I went after I do it no backdrop needed all done with light in turned it on within five minutes I've got exactly the shot I wanted and I think that's the same with with our magic and with our performance and with all the stuff when we when we go backwards and We go actually I'm gonna sit down and think about this rather than practice to move and what I'm trying to achieve and go Go to that place of non urgent important stuff of developing ourselves We then go back into our work and it's a lot more effective and the Sharpening the saw is from Stephen Covey Well done if he invented it but seven habits of highly effective people talk about you know That sort of stuff go back and read that very bit of a kind of dated book in some ways and a bit dry but I still think the the principles are incredible and I kind of try and live my life by it and Habit seven is sharpening the saw so it goes for all the things, you know, the behaviors that will make you more effective And this is pretty profound. I think would not be clever. It's not profound for me. I don't do it But the story is that someone's you know, walking through the forest and there's a guy You know cutting down a tree and he's really struggling. I mean Looks like hard work because yeah, I'm really sorry It's really it's I've got so much wood to cut and I'm really struggling to get through the tree My soul is really blunt and the guy goes why don't you sharpen the saw goes because I've got too many trees to cut down and it's that thing of kind of stepping back and working on the things to make you be able to do what you need to do and you know included that is your health your mental health your physical health your diet all of that helps Helps what we do and and go back into our work. And I think that When I sit down and do a course I think I haven't got time for this really and actually working through the Corporate Stage Act course has made me go God, I've been doing that for years. And of course, I shouldn't be doing that So I'm not saying everybody should buy it. But if it's just I think we should all Not necessarily sign up to paid courses, but all spend time and actually the the percentage I think People that write these books people are Stephen Covey said that that most organizations and people should be spending about 40 to 50 maybe 60% of their time doing that because everything else is so Effective when we do that and everything happens so much more quickly right so It does cool. So I'll just there's no questions really Marlowe easier to read the Marlowe So prime time Marlowe is is is is different So Steve, I think you're talking about what I met there. So Steve Reynolds's prime time Marlowe book is It is a companion to the film that John Racobama made with Marlowe many years ago the the film was was was in just jamming in the kitchen sort of thing or at the table and It's Steve Rollins is remastered and have this companion The companion isn't a really in-depth do this. It kind of talks you through what Marlowe was doing gives you some sort of instruction But they're not super detailed. It's kind of for people who work with cards as you do Tom And then it would but you'll kind of get the get most of the moves But then if you want the real detail, you can sort of go to Marlowe will go to John Racobama's books Which I was going to show you but can't find him. Yeah, they're down there somewhat Yeah card card fixes card finesse all that sort of stuff, but it's um, it's a lovely thing and I will be reviewing it soon So magical greetings from Oregon Thanks, Don. Good. Good to have you here. Does corporate act have to be integrated into their product or service? so I would say so most of the Pro Magic Academy stuff is around the corporate acts, but actually it's it's most of it is around an act So if you buy, you know If you invest in the big course It's got all the stuff by getting the gigs and what happens when you get to the corporate environment all that stuff But actually I would say most a lot of the stuff about putting your act together is is for doing any kind of gigs But I would say it's yeah, it's for kind of working pros Really? Right. I think that's it Thanks very much now no and Roddy are going to be on soon Remember the the piff launch because I'd love to talk about it. I've got the book. I'm hopefully getting it I know that there's an incredible Special edition which I won't be getting for I can't I won't be able for that I can never afford the special editions or justify affording them But there's one that I'm sort of tempted by but that it's limited edition and I think I've heard on the grapevine a couple of things about it and it seems ridiculous, but yeah, check that out at 9 o'clock UK time and if I've opened up there, right and there's a link also on my instagram story at Real magic review. So have a look at my story and Steve Faulkner Now go and have a look at online magic co Any more questions you got anything you want me to talk about on these sessions do email me Steve at online magic co I'm always looking for things to talk about if you can share these videos any of them just tell people about will share them on Social media it just makes such a difference. 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